Folk taboo about chopsticks, you must know!

Bowls and chopsticks are our daily meals are necessary utensils, and bowls and chopsticks are also the roots of traditional Chinese culture, it and life are inextricably linked. We usually eat, maybe there are parents cautioned not to erect chopsticks on the bowl, or do not break the bowl on New Year's holidays and other taboos. So, about chopsticks from ancient times, in the end, what are the taboos? Let's take a look!

A broken bowl do not use

Rice bowls are not just bowls we eat, there is a layer of meaning is to refer to their own work or career, if there are broken bowls at home, do not continue to use, because there are broken bowls in the home, will cause the family's income is not stable, easy to attract small people. So it is best not to use broken bowls in general families, only vagrants or beggars will use broken bowls, so the use of broken bowls is extremely inauspicious.

Second, eating taboo chopsticks inserted in the rice

From ancient times, there are eating method can not be inserted in the rice chopsticks on the saying, because this is the way to honor the ghosts and gods during the funeral, so the daily meal time must not do so, especially go out to dinner or eat at a friend's house, do not do so, seem to be impolite, but also very easy to offend others, good practice is to put the chopsticks on the right side of the bowl. Chopsticks rest on the right side of the bowl.

Third, the taboo to open the empty bowl before dinner

In folklore, knocking the empty bowl is equal to the sigh of poverty. We generally see beggars in the TV series knocking empty bowls begging, if the meal before knocking empty bowls means that they are crying poor, so this is particularly taboo. Especially at home with children's families, from time to time, out of no intention to let the children randomly knocking empty bowls, which is unlucky, not to do so.

Fourth, broken bowls can not be thrown

Bowls are not only used to eat, but also work and career symbolism, so throw the bowl is the same as losing their jobs. If you have a broken bowl at home, no longer continue to use, you can choose to store in the cabinet, or take the red cloth wrapped in the trash, the best way is to raise some plants and so on, in short, do not bring to feast is.

Life small taboos and traditional customs are inseparable, any thing that exists in the world must have its reason for existence and value. We as the master of life, we should know how to use this knowledge to make life better, learn the traditional knowledge of daily life, which is not only respect for culture, but also the inheritance of culture.